Can a Commission Change Title IX?

Women's groups are suspicious of new federal panel

By WELCH SUGGS

Washington

Under the Bush administration, the Education Department is tiptoeing around Title IX.

Late last month, Education Secretary Roderick R. Paige announced that he had formed a Commission on Opportunities in Athletics to study Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which bans gender discrimination...

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